What teams are being paid in this weekend's college games

Colorado is paying Texas State $900,000 to play at Folsom Field this weekend.

The early college football schedule is almost exclusively comprised of non-conference games. They are being governed by individually negotiated contracts.

Here are some of the more notable provisions from contracts for this weekend’s games.

Howard at Kent State: An FCS school, Howard pulled off one of the great upsets in college football by winning at Nevada-Las Vegas in a game that will end up giving Howard $600,000 because the university, its band and its cheerleaders fulfilled a series promotional obligations connected with the game. This week, the Bison begin an unusual two-game contract with Kent State: It involves games in Ohio in consecutive years, with both games scheduled as Kent State’s home opener. Howard is receiving $290,000 for each game, and the band and cheerleaders aren’t required to attend. The only requirement for Howard is one common to contracts between FCS and FBS schools. Because Kent State wants to be able to count a prospective win toward the six it needs for bowl eligibility, Howard had to provide written confirmation that it has been awarding an NCAA-specified number of football scholarships.

Texas State at Colorado: In addition to paying Texas State $900,000, Colorado agreed to provide 60 hotel rooms for one night’s lodging “at a full service hotel of Colorado’s choosing in the Boulder area (within 20 miles of campus).” While the rooms are being billed to Colorado, all other expenses – meals, extra rooms, meeting space, audio-visual needs – are Texas State’s responsibility.

Nebraska at Oregon: This is the second game of a two-game series – one at each school – in which the schools agreed that the visiting team would be paid $1 million.

Delaware at Virginia Tech: Under a contract signed in 2013, the schools decided to provide some protection for Delaware in case the market price for games involving FCS schools went up. Virginia Tech agreed that it would pay Delaware the greater of $425,000, or an amount equal to the average of the guarantee payments made to FCS opponents during the 2016 season by Virginia, North Carolina, North Carolina State and Virginia Tech. The way things turned out, Delaware will be getting $425,000 for the game, Virginia Tech athletics spokesman Pete Moris said.

Payouts to visiting teams for non-conference games involving at least one public-school team from a Power Five conference, plus other select games:

Note: Several games scheduled to include guarantee payments to the visiting team have been canceled due to Hurricane Irma. They are: Louisiana-Monroe at Florida State ($1,350,000); Northern Colorado at Florida ($625,000); Miami, Fla. at Arkansas State ($300,000).